Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" was yesterday's poem selection. Its primary image is of sailing on the sea; its primary theme is of dealing with death. Today's poem choice could, of course, go either way. I considered John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud", another of my favorite poems from teenage years. I quite accidentally memorized the first two lines ( Read more... )

This morning, I had to drive S to school because she opted to stay home and finish a bit of homework she'd forgotten rather than take the bus that comes an hour before school opens. (I don't quarrel with her decision, which was sound, or with her priorities, which were to spend all last night studying for a major unit test in Spanish, and I enjoy ( Read more... )

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